At 07:14 PM 1/29/98 -0600, you wrote: >I have to confess to having smuggled a few plants into the U.s. - the one >time was a pomegranite cutting from Italy. Guess seeds from Kenya wouldn't >count, would they? That is one of the more frustrating things for us and >traveling is not to be able to bring home some of the plants. > our host for our week stay in Sommerset last summer said if we washed all >the soil off the roots, we could carry them home with us. We didn't try to >take any plants back, however, because we had another 9 days in Scotland. >Do you all know if this is so? >Barb Rothenberger >Columbia, Mo, > In early 1987 I ordered about 200 native orchids from my old supplier outside Bangkok. Had a phyto-sanitary certificate and all. APHIS torched them in Hawaii on the way through. Sent me a nice note that they had done it and that the certificate was suspect. Shucks, Mr. Chou was probably the ONLY grower in Thailand that used an honest inspector. Decided I didn't want to grow orchids any more. George